Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Featured Content
The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) was a movement organization that opposed control unit prisons in particular, and racism and oppression in general. It was founded in 1985 and came to a close in 2000. Over the course of those 15 years, CEML led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and tried to build a national movement against “end-of-the-line” prisons. Along the way the Committee wrote thousands of pages of educational and agitational literature and pioneered new ways of analyzing and fighting against this national quagmire that morphed into the proliferation of the “prison industrial complex.”
Collection includes: Publications on their efforts to shut down the Marion Prison control unit, prevent the opening of USP Florence, CO; protests against toxic water at Crab Orchard Lake; efforts to improve conditions for inmates; efforts to stop the proliferation of Control Units in general; and further human rights and social justice in the US prison system.
Documents
![Presentation by Steve Whitman to the November 1, 1986 Conference to end the Marion Lockdown as {art of the Workshop on the Changing Nature of the US Prison System](images/thumbnails//27161.jpg)
![Correspondence Packet on Censorship of CEML Letters to Marion Inmates](images/thumbnails//27174.jpg)
![The Crime of Black Imprisonment](images/thumbnails//27175.jpg)
![Correspondence to CEML Members](images/thumbnails//27196.jpg)
![For Immediate Release](images/thumbnails//27219.jpg)
![The Marion Penitentiary: It Should by Opened Up, Not Locked Down](images/thumbnails//27220.jpg)
![Some Thoughts on the Water Situation at Marion](images/thumbnails//27233.jpg)
![The politics of this book](images/thumbnails//27267.jpg)
![Twelve Month Plan for Work Around Marion](images/thumbnails//27269.jpg)